Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

In this examination of the role of ornament in nineteenth-century French literature, Rae Beth Gordon shows that...  Read More >>

Robert Darnton, Roger Chartier, and others have written much on the history of reading in the Old Regime, but this...  Read More >>

Stephen Railton's study of the American Renaissance proposes a fresh way of conceiving the writer as a performing...  Read More >>

Much of what was central to Tolstoy seems embarrassing to Western and Soviet critics, points out Richard Gustafson...  Read More >>

William Blake called himself a ""sublime Artist"" and acknowledged his own power to create ""the Most Sublime Poetry.""...  Read More >>

The work of Wallace Stevens has been read most widely as poetry concerned with poetry, and not with the world in...  Read More >>

Practicing Romance sets out to re-tell the story of Hawthorne's career, arguing that he is best understood as a...  Read More >>

Early in Thoreau's career, he became obsessed with the problem of getting to be at home in the world. This ambitious...  Read More >>

Here Ekbert Faas examines the complex interrelationships among the fields of early psychiatry, poetry, and aesthetics...  Read More >>

These volumes continue the only complete edition of the surviving correspondence of William Morris (1834- 1896),...  Read More >>

In this ambitious work Anita Levy exposes certain forms of middle-class power that have been taken for granted as...  Read More >>

The seventeenth-century English collaborative authors Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher were not only the most...  Read More >>

Guiding readers through the disorienting dreamworld of James Joyce's last work, Kimberly Devlin examines Finnegans...  Read More >>

The novelist Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) is known primarily as a chronicler of his age and crafter of elegant prose--like...  Read More >>

Encouraged by the response of the avid novel-reading public in early nineteenth-century England, minor novelists...  Read More >>

Paul Magnuson contends that the relationship between Coleridge's and Wordsworth's poetry is so complex that a new...  Read More >>

Integrating the study of both music and art into an exploration of the early poetry of Eugenio Montale (1896-1982),...  Read More >>

In this provocative study, Susan Mizruchi argues that the act of writing history is the key to the political concerns...  Read More >>

Comedy cannot be understood as an abstract critical concept, argues Roger Henkle; it 'must be studied in specific...  Read More >>

By making his argument about In Memoriam a continuous argument for it, Timothy Peltason brings to light a wider...  Read More >>

In a critical examination of Thackeray's style, Mr. Loofbourow shows how Thackeray ""hybridized"" the genre of the...  Read More >>

Alone of the great Russian novels of the nineteenth-century, Dead Souls has remained almost as profound a mystery...  Read More >>

A closely documented, balanced account of the bitter political struggle in May and June of 1960 when thousands of...  Read More >>

This fresh look at the social and political themes of Blake's poetry shows that he was a phenomenologist of liberation,""...  Read More >>

With the aid of new analytic techniques, including the computer, Karl Kroeber examines the fictional styles of three...  Read More >>